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[Naturegirl1999]

Do you know what's definitely an essential business during this pandemic? Pro Wrestling!

What? Why? That’s a terrible idea.

[Iduno]

Do you know what's definitely an essential business during this pandemic? Pro Wrestling!

Why?

Florida.

[mko]

Worst worst case scenario is when people who have had the virus lose immunity after some time, which is not unusual with many other respiratory virusses.  In that case we can expect a few yearly lockdowns for the rest of our lives, or until a medicine is found that makes the illness less severe, so less people end up on ICU.

Multiyear lockdown would kill more people than COVID, so in such case continuing it would be a bad idea.

[Starver]

Do you know what's definitely an essential business during this pandemic? Pro Wrestling!

As sort-of-documented in hovertext by Randall Munroe?

I mean, non-contact VR-only wrestling is pretty much possible for people already executing highly choreographed 'self-slamdowns'.

(Incidentally, from the latest comic I learnt yesterday that John Conway (the creator of the Game Of Life who isn't Milton Bradley) has died. Among so many others, of course.)

[TamerVirus]

I mean, non-contact VR-only wrestling is pretty much possible for people already executing highly choreographed 'self-slamdowns'.

"The Invisible Man" has been used as a gimmick before :Pretty much a one man wrestling match
In fact, "Invisible Wrestler" vs "Invisible Wrestler" has also been done, somehow

[martinuzz]

<sigh>
Trump decided to stop the US contribution to the WHO, accusing them of obscuring and blurring the severity of the corona outbreak in China.
'The outbreak could have been stopped at the source with only little casualties', he said.
'The WHO has failed her basic objective", and "it needs to be held responsible'.
He announced that all payments to the WHO will immediatly be placed on hold, until the WHO's conduct in the pandemic has been evaluated.


The US up to now has been the largest contributor to the WHO. Last year the US spent 400 million dollars on it.

[hector13]

15% of their budget.

He’s trying to distract from his whole “I AM THE LAW” and general criticism of his incompetence.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm enjoying today's edition of "I now have an unshakable opinion on an organization I'd never heard of yesterday because Mother Government tells me so".

[Reelya]

Trump should redirect the money to a new organization call the America First Health Organization.

[martinuzz]

America First Aid Organisation

[Starver]

He has a whole different take on "The Buck Stops Here".  (Also neither does it mean government bucks into his pockets.)

Also announced an offshore drugs siezure, while failing to do anything to help with useful drugs (except hitch himself to that iffy chloroquinine stuff, again likely with financial remunerations attached to his direct benefit).


TBH, the UK government is doing similar self-excusing, the line being "at all times we have been following the latest scientific advice" (a.k.a. "Not our fault, guvnor... You can't get the wood you know!") but at least they aren't just... whatever it is that he's doing.

[Rolan7]

<sigh>
Trump decided to stop the US contribution to the WHO, accusing them of obscuring and blurring the severity of the corona outbreak in China.
'The outbreak could have been stopped at the source with only little casualties', he said.
'The WHO has failed her basic objective", and "it needs to be held responsible'.
He announced that all payments to the WHO will immediatly be placed on hold, until the WHO's conduct in the pandemic has been evaluated.


The US up to now has been the largest contributor to the WHO. Last year the US spent 400 million dollars on it.

I'm gonna be honest, my first reaction to this went against forum guidelines.  Not even from a place of anger - I got angry when he started making noises about this early last week or so (arguably for weeks, but it got severe).  Maybe it's a cold anger?  It feels more like confusion.

I guess I don't wish any harm on him as long as he's removed from office for being a clear and present danger to all humanity.  I mean, revenge is the kind of pointless endeavor he'd advocate.  Rehabilitation is a much more enlightened goal, after you've resolved the threat to the public of course.

He's not supposed to put holds like this on congressionally assigned funds - like, particularly for his own ego or benefit...  Does he still not get that?  I guess he doesn't care, since he got away with it before and presumably now.  We are so fucked...

[misko27]

Plague Inc really needs an expanded scenario, I don't think even they coulda imagined something like this.

[ChairmanPoo]

Btw: recent case-control studies with HCQ point to it providing some symptom relief (if at all) but little else, with similar times to seroconversion and ICU admission rates

[Max™]

So, I remember a CPAP vs BiPAP discussion in here a while back and "airbreaking" some CPAP machines means you only need to control aerosolization because apparently at least some of them CAN do the inflow/outflow jobs their more expensive cousins perform: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/firmware-jailbreak-lets-low-cost-medical-devices-act-like-ventilators/